Tag: Johannesburg

#JoziWalks2019 The month of May sees a couple of annual special events. One of them is the week-end of #JoziWalks when local Joziburgers host unique walking tours to discover different communities across the city. This year they are happening on the week-end of the 18th and 19th May. 2019 saw 35 applications (a 30% increase […]

RMB Turbine Art Fair 2018 Turbine Hall is a great venue One of my very favourite events of the year is the Turbine Art Fair. I love everything about it. The venue is great: the Turbine Hall is the most amazing example of adaptive re-use of an industrial heritage building; there is always a wide range […]

Where is the City Centre? The second question travelers arriving at Liz at Lancaster from Europe and the US often ask me is: ‘Where is the city centre’? (The first question is ‘Is there wi-fi?’) This first question is easy to answer – ‘Yes and it’s FAST!’ But the second question is not so easy […]

Along with pop-up shops it’s become popular to have a special event on a particular day of each month making it easy to forward plan one’s calendar. Now that 2018 is in full swing, here’s a list of events to diarize. Thursdays First Thursdays Let’s start with Thursday as First Thursdays have become a […]

DW – 11-13 Dunkeld West shopping centre 2 ‘foodie’ guests come across from Pretoria to sample Jozi’s best restaurants. They have been so knocked out by D-W 11-13, voted in the top 20 restaurants in South Africa, that they came back for a second time last week. They love staying at Liz at Lancaster and […]

Sandboarding the mine dumps More from Adi Goeller’s great weekly Newsletter: Fifty Two – weekly things to do and see in Joburg Below from his latest newsletter no 39 This week’s pick: Sandboarding the Gold Mines Genre: Pure rush What: Johannesburg’s gold mining days produced man-made mountains of soft yellow sand – these wildly recognised […]

Wonderful Jazz Offerings during November Feya Faku – 6 Nov Trumpet/flugel horn player Feya Faku was born in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. He studied informally with some of the great jazzmen of the sixties and seventies. Feya has travelled the world collaborating and making music with some of the greatest musicians in the jazz world. […]

AZA 2010 After a week way to busy with SPRING FEVER of maintenance here at Liz at Lancaster (watch this space), I woke up a bit late to the amazing events surrounding SA’s first architecture mega-event AZA 2010 which runs in Johannesburg from September 21 to 28. Intending to bring architecture back to the public domain there […]

Philip Miller’s Concert at Arts on Main Don’t miss Philip Miller’s concert Playing on Image, on Saturday 25th or Sunday 26th September at 8pm September at Arts on Main in eastern downtown Joburg. Well-known for his collaboration with Kentridge as well as Bell and Hodgins, Miller composes music which is evocative and haunting. Playing on Image is a two […]

RMB Winex Launched 11 years ago, RMB WineX is the premier wine event in South Africa. There will be some 1 500 wines available for tasting from the 250 Cape Producers exhibiting. The exhibitor line-up this year includes award-winning producers such as Nederburg, Fleur du Cap, Tokara and Saronsberg, while there will also be newcomers […]